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Year: 2007

  • So on Halloween I headed up to Portland to dote on my lovely and perfect god-daughter V (what, I’m allowed to be biased, right?). This post is going to be picture heavy because she’s so damn cute I can’t just pick one. Michele and I have a thing for gnomes. I find them to be hilarious and for their housewarming gift I bought them some pre-worn (hehehe) garden gnomes from a garage sale. So I thought it fitting that I make up a gnome costume for V for this holiday. I whipped up the belt with…

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  • Reid (with the spiders) and her boyfriend Eric (the vampire with his arm around Bj). I also enjoyed Martin’s ‘dot com explosion" (that would be Tex, bent over and laughing so hard at Bj, who kept playing up the part). And now I need to do some last minuet things to get V’s costume ready then it’s sleepover time up in Portland so I can trick or treat with her. I’m so excited! Oh and if you sent me an email before Tuesday I can’t respond to it because we installed Leopard (um, amazing!) and there…

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  • Look at me, I’m a grown up with a brand new car! It’s one of those CR-V‘s (but 2007 kind). I know, I know, you’re shocked and a half that I didn’t get the green one. The thing is I love the color of the green element, but the green CR-V didn’t hold my heart as much, and I wasn’t really that thrilled with the beige interior. So since they had this on, I got it! Yeah! I’ve never had a new car before. The inside is so nice. I picked it up, and then picked…

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